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I have mounted two Nikon scopes in the past year or so and used a Wheeler leveling system I got for under 40 bucks on advice of my friend/range instructor. It is the one that puts a clamp on the BBL. to enable you to first index the bbl. to the receiver and then the scope to the bbl. Two steps to really accurate leveling. Works great and gets very good accuracy relative to "eyeballing".
At the range this week a friend with a .22 Magnum target rifle (good , expensive relatively, model) and a no name scope the local GS sold and mounted for him , was having fits trying to zero it at fifty yards.
I let him shoot my 10/22 with a NIKON 3-9 Rimfire scope and he was dead on with it. He then got very tight groups from my AR, also with Nikon scope.
When I told him I had mounted both scopes using the Wheeler leveling system he said the gunshop surely used a good system to mount it since they had charged him extra to do it. (a clue in itself, IMHO).
I volunteered to take it home and check it using my tools. He came with me and we saw that the scope was not even close to level with the top of the receiver because the bbl. had not been properly indexed to the receiver in the first place OR they just threw it on and guessed. Incidentally, they hadn't zeroed the scope for him either.
Back to the range and evern with the cheap scope, his rifle was dead on at 50 yards after I levelled his scope for him and he zeroed it . It was only a couple inches off out of the chute anyway because they had obviously not touched the adjustment from the factory and he hadn't been able to do much damage before realizing his inputs weren't going in the direction they should.
Want it right? Learn how and do it yourself or at least use somebody you know will do it right.
At the range this week a friend with a .22 Magnum target rifle (good , expensive relatively, model) and a no name scope the local GS sold and mounted for him , was having fits trying to zero it at fifty yards.
I let him shoot my 10/22 with a NIKON 3-9 Rimfire scope and he was dead on with it. He then got very tight groups from my AR, also with Nikon scope.
When I told him I had mounted both scopes using the Wheeler leveling system he said the gunshop surely used a good system to mount it since they had charged him extra to do it. (a clue in itself, IMHO).
I volunteered to take it home and check it using my tools. He came with me and we saw that the scope was not even close to level with the top of the receiver because the bbl. had not been properly indexed to the receiver in the first place OR they just threw it on and guessed. Incidentally, they hadn't zeroed the scope for him either.
Back to the range and evern with the cheap scope, his rifle was dead on at 50 yards after I levelled his scope for him and he zeroed it . It was only a couple inches off out of the chute anyway because they had obviously not touched the adjustment from the factory and he hadn't been able to do much damage before realizing his inputs weren't going in the direction they should.
Want it right? Learn how and do it yourself or at least use somebody you know will do it right.
